Press release from Global Foundries.
http://www.globalfoundries.com/news...logy-success-for-next-generation-amd-products
http://www.globalfoundries.com/news...logy-success-for-next-generation-amd-products
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Achieves 14nm FinFET Technology Success for Next-Generation AMD Products
Leading-edge foundrys proven silicon technology poised to help enable significant performance and power efficiency improvements for AMDs next-generation products
Santa Clara, Calif., November 5, 2015 -- GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced it has demonstrated silicon success on the first AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) products using GLOBALFOUNDRIES most advanced 14nm FinFET process technology. As a result of this milestone, GLOBALFOUNDRIES silicon-proven technology is planned to be integrated into multiple AMD products that address the growing need for high-performance, power-efficient compute and graphics technologies across a broad set of applications, from personal computers to data centers to immersive computing devices.
AMD has taped out multiple products using GLOBALFOUNDRIES 14nm Low Power Plus (14LPP) process technology and is currently conducting validation work on 14LPP production samples. Todays announcement represents another significant milestone towards reaching full production readiness of GLOBALFOUNDRIES 14LPP process technology, which will reach high-volume production in 2016. The 14LPP platform taps the benefits of three-dimensional, fully-depleted FinFET transistors to enable customers like AMD to deliver more processing power in a smaller footprint for applications that demand the ultimate in performance.
FinFET technology is expected to play a critical foundational role across multiple AMD product lines, starting in 2016, said Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMD. GLOBALFOUNDRIES has worked tirelessly to reach this key milestone on its 14LPP process. We look forward to GLOBALFOUNDRIES' continued progress towards full production readiness and expect to leverage the advanced 14LPP process technology across a broad set of our CPU, APU, and GPU products.
Our 14nm FinFET technology is among the most advanced in the industry, offering an ideal solution for demanding high-volume, high-performance, and power-efficient designs with the best die size, said Mike Cadigan, senior vice president of product management at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Through our close design-technology partnership with AMD, we can help them deliver products with a performance boost over 28nm technology, while maintaining a superior power footprint and providing a true cost advantage due to significant area scaling.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES 14LPP FinFET is ramping with production-ready yields and excellent model-to-hardware correlation at its Fab 8 facility in New York. In January, the early-access version of the technology (14LPE) was successfully qualified for volume production, while achieving yield targets on lead customer products. The performance-enhanced version of the technology (14LPP) was qualified in the third quarter of 2015, with the early ramp occurring in the fourth quarter of 2015 and full-scale production set for 2016.
Will Zen be using 14LPP?
Zen and arctic islands hype train!!!! All aboard!!!!
after fuji I dont know if i wanna :/
I don't think Zen (desktop/server Zen that is) will be using this LPP node, just speculation here but I think the LPP node is for APUs and embedded.
The cost advantage claim is a lie much like with Intel ...
Bristol Ridge is a 28nm APU.
Bristol Ridge is a 28nm APU.
Am I missing something?
Ohhh is it ??? I though it was 14nm i could be wrong.
As far as I know, its Carrizo for desktop.
Summit Ridge is zen-fx, iirc.
The cost advantage claim is a lie much like with Intel
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That is only true for the first 6-12 months of early production,
As time goes by, yields are getting better, volume production is increasing and depreciation is counted the 14nm is getting cheaper.
It still hasn't happened for Intel. According to their earnings call their 14nm parts still have worse margins than the 22nm parts they replace.
Globalfoundries confirmed today that they have successfully qualified the 14LPP process and delivered working 14nm product samples to AMD. Both companies confirmed via a release issued to the press today that AMD will be introducing CPU, APU and GPU products next year based on Globalfoundries most advanced 14nm FinFET process technology dubbed 14LPP.
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On the CPU side weve managed to confirm that both of AMDs next generation high performance x86 and ARM64bit CPU cores, code named Zen and K12 have also successfully completed the design phase and reached tape out and are on track for availability next year and in 2017 respectively.
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According to the joint announcement today, 14LPP is in excellent shape. With yields already hitting production-ready thresholds. Meaning that the only thing left for 14LPP to enter volume production is for total capacity to meet demand. Which should occur sometime in 2016 as the process continues its ramp-up, which has been kicked off in Q4 of this year.